Friday, October 28, 2016

Variety is an organisation that helps children all around the nation. Today at assembly, we had visitors from Variety come and gift our children with chromebooks for their learning at school. Here is short video of the children that received gifts today. We would like to say thank you to all who help this organisation to help children all around New Zealand. We are very blessed!

During assembly we also had an ex student Tanielu Tele'a come and speak to the children about some of the things he has achieved and got up to while here and what he has been up to so far. We are all very proud of him. Tanielu is also Justus' big brother and he came and sat with him for a bit this morning in class.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Team 4 have an important value for children to learn alongside respect. We have been talking about 'Gratitude' and what this means to us and what it would look like to others. Here is a short movie about what some of our children think gratitude is and what they are grateful/ thankful for. Thank you to all the children that helped make this movie.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

To finish off the week, our Niuean group performed an item for the whole school during assembly. Mrs Lagitupu quizzed the children on some words that we had shared on PENN News through the week. We had visitors from the Manaiakalani Trust come and speak to us as well as our new police constables for the Glen Innes area.

What a wonderful way to finish the week. Fakaaue lahi and thank you everyone for supporting us. We would especially like to acknowledge the Tusini-Rex family for their song Koe tau Tau Loga kua mole ki Tua. We love our culture! To find more resources, click here.
Niue Group item for Niue Language week 2016 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Fakaalofa lahi atu ko e faahi tapu he Vagahau Niue. Greetings! It's Niuean Language Week. Over the week, we're going to be sharing some basic terms in Niuean with you. As a school, we watch these movies during the school news on television. At the end of the week, there will be a quiz and the winners will be announced during our school assembly on Friday morning.
Check out a bit of Niuean history and our movie for fruits here. A big thank you to all the children who helped film and make these movies.
2. Niue history from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Monday, October 17, 2016

Niuean Language Week has begun! Ponataki, Tukutaula ke Mauokafua e Vagahau Niuean. Bind, Anchor to Firmly Uphold the Niuean Language. Here is our video that we have made and shared on our PENN news for the school. At the end of the week, we will have a quiz so watch this space. (note: quiz is only for Pt England students who are present at assembly on Friday).

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Today was a Point England school Olympic event. There were eight countries that children were divided into. Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Fiji, Ireland and Japan. Each country had four teams, seniors (Year 5-8) and juniors (Year 1-4).

There were games for just the juniors and just the seniors. All teams had to compete against other countries. Third place was South Africa, second was Brazil and first place was Fiji. We've had so much fun.

(We were supposed to have the games last term but had to postpone because of the weather). Thank you Miss Va'afusuaga and all the teachers, helpers, students and parents who helped to make this event and awesome one.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Team 4 had heaps of fun today. It was all about science experiments. Mr Somerville and Mr Goodwin looked at blowing stuff up (with dry ice), Miss West and Mr Baxendine looked at other experiments using dry ice and Mrs Moala and Miss Lavakula made a bouncy ball. Here are some photos and a short clip of what we did today.

Monday, October 10, 2016

School has begun and term 4 is finally here! This morning our school had an Immersion Assembly. It is the staff's way of introducing the inquiry to our children for the term. It is based all on Science and the material world. Here are some highlights of our assembly including Team 4's movie. Enjoy!